Always Be My Maybe, the new romantic comedy starring comedienne Ali Wong and actor Randall Park, sprang from an off-the-cuff comment Wong made in an interview three years ago.
One of the hottest new stand-up comics of 2016, following her breakout Netflix special Baby Cobra - which she famously performed heavily pregnant - Wong, now 37, was featured in a New Yorker magazine profile that year.
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